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openDoes Hilarious in Hindsight count if the funny stuff preceded the work?
I noticed that Tanta Monty removed several Hilarious in Hindsight examples from YMMV.Sonic The Hedgehog because "Hilarious In Hindsight is when a LATER event makes dialogue or situations within these games funnier than they originally were. It's not for funny stuff that preceded them."
Still, they're funny things that became funnier due to later events. How should I deal with them? Re-add them back, add them to Hilarious in Hindsight subpages instead?
Edited by PrincessPandaTropeopenNo Title
Is it okay to delete redirects in https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/It/ElencoProvvisorioP-R
Edited by lugia1openIs this an okay BrokenBase entry?
I was looking at the YMMV page for Monty Python's Life of Brian here and after reading the Broken Base entry, I can't help but feel that there's something just a little off about it.
- Broken Base: This is a film that still remains controversial. Some people assume it's a parody of Jesus, who is actually just a very minor character in the film (and himself played completely straight). Others claim the film mocks Christianity, while it can also be interpreted as mocking religion or blindly fanatical followers in general, for that matter. In a sense it also spoofs the typically heavy handed and deadly serious Bible epics. Some very devout religious people condemn the film for being blasphemous without having seen it. Some religious people who did watch it act as if this movie doesn't mock Jesus, Christianity or religion at all, which is again not totally true either. There are several very outrageous heretical scenes that could easily offend people who take their faith too seriously, but religious people with a sense of humour can enjoy the film just fine. The movie is also more than just a shocking comedy. It raises excellent points about blindly following leaders, misinterpreting so-called signs and messages and not thinking for yourself.
I don't know, but it seems like the entry is going off-topic a little bit in trying to talk about every stance on the film, and the last two sentences don't seem relevant. Also, this:
- easily offend people who take their faith too seriously, but religious people with a sense of humour can enjoy the film just fine.
Seems needlessly insulting, bordering on breaking the Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment.
openFamily Unfriendly Aesop misuse
FamilyUnfriendlyAesop.Western Animation:
** Alternately, the lesson could be seen as "drugs will ruin your life....unless you're rich and famous, then everything will work out"
I deleted this as all the Aesop cleanups previously agreed Alternate Aesop Interpretation isn't this trope as it's not the intended Aesop that's unfriendly. QueenMarine, the troper who first added it, immediately added it back without explanation. Any reason not to re-cut it?
The Aesop cleanup threats are slow enough I'm asking here first.
Edited by Ferot_DreadnaughtopenDivided TV folder on Dastardly Whiplash
On Dastardly Whiplash, the Live-Action TV folder is split into two sections, one for Series and one for TV movies (the latter has one example.) I've never seen this before, and I'm sure it's not standard, but should it be allowed?
openFiveManBand correct usage? Anime
I'm not sure whether this entry in Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense. is legit:
(Maple Tree Guild > In General)
- Five-Man Band: Maple Tree has this both as a social dynamic and in battle.
- The Leader: The Badass Adorable guild master Maple, the resident Mighty Glacier and part time Kaiju.
- The Lancer: Sally who is a genius gamer and Kasumi, collectively the guild's greatest offensive threat.
- The Smart Guy: Kanade, a talented puzzle solver and their source of Standard Status Effects.
- The Big Guy: Kuromu, one of the best conventional Shielders in the game as well as Mai and Yui; pintsized powerhouses who specialize in one hit kills.
- The Chick: Iz, the guild's crafter.
I was about to erase this, but I'm not sure whether this is the case of tropes being flexible and the band can apply to the team of more than 5, and it just need a revision.
open Do anyone know what is the name of this series
There was this one series about I belive priest who was solving mysteries like crimes but with touch of supernatural. And there is one particular episode where girl can burn things when she look at them.Also when that priest was young his mother died because she tried to save him from falling from roof.Series was on Fox crime in 2013/2014/2015. Sorry for my bad English
Edited by BoziopenEdit war on Trivia/{{Onward}}
Yesterday, Tropineasily added Box Office Bomb to the trivia page for Onward. After taking it to the "No Recent Examples" thread, I removed it, as the film was just released.
Today, they added it back, and sent me a message about deleting YMMV items.
I will admit that I should have left an edit reason, as I forgot to do so when I removed it.
openCan't link videos to media source Videogame
I realized that the page for Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers didn't have video examples linked to it, but videos for Ret-Gone and Player Personality Quiz had examples from that same game anyway. On closer inspection I noticed that the name of the media source given by the videos on each of the trope pages is not completely the same as the title given by the media page. Is there anyway for me to fix this myself?
Edited by TheGrayShadowopenShould I remove this example? Videogame
I know I’ve seen another Values Resonance entry before regarding incels, and that was concluded as not fitting the item.
So, what do you guys think of this entry? I’m also putting this here because I think this example might also be kind of flamey, and looking for a quick response.
- Adachi feels that society "owes" him success and a relationship because of his hard work in his youth, and blames women for rejecting him even when he sexually assaults them. Then, when outed as the murderer, he blames society for making him this way. His actions are eerily predictive of the "incel" movement from the later half of the New 10's.
open Cookie recipe Live Action TV
So it’s a tv show where the mum is making these cookies that these two teenage kids reallllyyy like and she says they’re from a secret recipe so the kids try find the secret recipe, which they do, behind a painting. They follow the recipe but the cookies aren’t the same and the mum then tells them that she set that up and the cookies are actually made from like premade dough in a tube kind of thing and she just adds a load of sugar.
Think it’s a kids show HELP
openUnnecessarily cut WMG and Headscratchers Music
Hi, I noticed that the WMG and Headscratchers pages for Kidz Bop were cut on account of being nothing but "complaining", but I don't see anything wrong about either of them. From what I remember, the WMG one was just users predicting what songs will be on the next album and the Headscratchers page was asking why the franchise didn't cover a certain song. I don't see what's so wrong about that. I do say it is a bit surprising how people actually take this franchise seriously enough to trope it, but I guess it's because it is well-known.
open Double Standard question?
Is Double Standard a no real live or in-universe only trope? And how is it different than Hypocrite?
I'm doing some clean-ups that would be helped by this.
openTroper with some editing issues
RobertTYL has a habit of improper indentation and ZCEs, among other problems. I first discovered their bad habits when I looked over Bridge to Terabithia 2: The Last Time, a page started and heavily edited by them- a cursory glance shows a lot of context problems, and while there are a lot of properly indented examples, there are others that aren't so properly intended.
I sent a notifier and they did in fact respond...but despite editing heavily, they've never actually gone back and fixed anything; instead they've just continued to edit 'Classic Singapore Horror Stories instead, which has a lot of similar errors. So while they've acknowledged my attempt to reach out to them, they didn't actually pay attention to what I was saying and have continued to make a lot of edits with similar issues.
I've also noticed some issues with What Goes Where on the Wiki; here they posted an In-Universe example on the YMMV page, and they've also posted a Moral Event Horizon wick on the main page.
Edited by WarJay77openRequesting revert on Nintendo Switch
Can a mod please do a restore on UsefulNotes.Nintendo Switch?
Last fall, I went through the Nintendo console pages to insert index tags so that only games would get indexed, not franchise pages or anything else that might get linked.
A few weeks ago, The Tropper removed them all from the Switch page with the edit reason "For those that hadn't noticed. Most of these 'index' formats are causing most of the titles to not have a Nintendo Switch index label on their page." — not realizing that that was exactly the point in adding them in the first place.
There are a few minor edits after the Tropper's that will have to be re-done afterward; but I can do those manually.
EDIT: I think I just realized why he did it. I saw that one of the tags had a typo, so a group of links legitimately weren't being indexed when they should have been. Still requesting the restore; just something else to fix afterward.
Edited by DragonRangeropen A ghost in a house
I might just love you until I die if I find this. It is a show about a friendly ghost who lives in a house with a family and fulfills all their wishes. He is friendly and has best intentions but usually it doesn't end well as he doesn't think through the wishes. The ghost guy doesn't actually look like a ghost, he looks quite young, and a like a little bit of a rip off of Aladin as he has a turban and a lamp. That's about everything I can remember, and it is probably from the early 2000s but I don't know that for sure.
I know that spoiler tags are not allowed above the examples line. I'm assuming that page quotes count as being above the examples line? Because the quote for NightmareFuel.Get Out 2017 has a spoiler tag in it.
Edited by jandn2014